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Africa: from violence to peace

Africa: from violence to peace

Lauren Gunias

On 28 July in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, making an American president’s first speech to the African Union, President Obama said: ‘Many of these groups claim the banner of religion, but hundreds of millions of African Muslims know that Islam means peace’.

For millions of Muslims, that may be true. But for one Muslim cleric, it was not. This is his story.